Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Law Commons

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Articles 1 - 7 of 7

Full-Text Articles in Law

Automobile Liability Insurance System: Proposals For Pragmatic Reform, William T. Cahill Jan 1969

Automobile Liability Insurance System: Proposals For Pragmatic Reform, William T. Cahill

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Competition As A Means Of Regulating Insurance, Jason C. Blackford Jan 1969

Competition As A Means Of Regulating Insurance, Jason C. Blackford

Cleveland State Law Review

The sole thesis of this paper is that competition among insurers, tempered by state supervision of their financial control, is a workable alternative to active state control of the business of insurance. It is not the purpose of this analysis to question the basic concept and the workability of affirmative government control of insurance. To test this thesis, a case study will be made of the rating process used in the business of automobile liability insurance in the State of Ohio.


Financial Aspects Of The Automobile Problem, Robert C. Goshay, Alfred E. Hofflander Jan 1969

Financial Aspects Of The Automobile Problem, Robert C. Goshay, Alfred E. Hofflander

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Agency And Insurance: Should The Defense Of Fraud By Its Own Agent Be Available To An Insurance Company Issuing Automobile Insurance?, J. Dennis Hynes Jan 1969

Agency And Insurance: Should The Defense Of Fraud By Its Own Agent Be Available To An Insurance Company Issuing Automobile Insurance?, J. Dennis Hynes

Publications

No abstract provided.


Comparative Negligence And Automobile Liability Insurance, Cornelius J. Peck Mar 1960

Comparative Negligence And Automobile Liability Insurance, Cornelius J. Peck

Michigan Law Review

The purpose of this article is not to re-plow the ground of history, case law, and statutory developments which has been so competently tilled by others. Nor is the purpose to give a detailed consideration of each of the practical matters mentioned above. Instead, the focus of this article is on the relationship between comparative negligence and automobile liability insurance. Insurance rates and accident statistics, rather than rules of law and cases, are the primary materials. Such a consideration of the subject it might be hoped would give a positive and substantiated answer to the frequently debated but never documented …


Insurance-Conditions-Effect Of Non-Compliance With Notice Clause On Insurer's Liability, John W. Hupp S.Ed. Dec 1952

Insurance-Conditions-Effect Of Non-Compliance With Notice Clause On Insurer's Liability, John W. Hupp S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Automobile liability insurance policies invariably contain a provision requiring immediate notice of accident and suit. The purpose of such a provision is to allow the insurer to make an investigation of the accident in order to prepare a defense and to prevent fraudulent and invalid claims. Although compliance with the provision may be of the utmost importance to the insurer, it frequently is a matter of little or no concern to the insured, and so upon the happening of an accident the insured frequently fails to give due notice to the insurer. The succeeding action by the injured party against …


Insurance - Waiver And Estoppel As Applied To Excepted Risks, Michigan Law Review Nov 1939

Insurance - Waiver And Estoppel As Applied To Excepted Risks, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The appellee insurance company issued a policy of automobile liability insurance covering a motor truck owned by appellant, which policy stated that the occupation of assured is "handling farm machinery, crane fixtures and paints," and that the use made of the truck should be commercial ("commercial" being defined as "the transportation or delivery of goods, merchandise or other materials, and uses incidental thereto, in direct connection with the named assured's business occupation . . . including the loading and unloading thereof"). Appellant began to transport tanks of butone gas, which fact was known by appellee's agency on the date the …